The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is backtracking on a policy change it made last week disqualifying telework as a “reasonable accommodation,” even for disabled workers.

The Centers of Disease Control made a policy change effective Sept. 15 prohibiting employees to work from home even if they were previously able to do so as a reasonable accommodation for disability or medical issue.

However, the CDC decided to put the policy “on hold,” as it “seeks clarification,” on a new telework policy, according to internal emails obtained by USA Today .

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CDC workers’ union, American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), called the initial policy change a “dangerous plan,” and the “ most sweeping

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